Pale Fire

von Vladimir Nabokov

256 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The American poet John Shade is dead; murdered. His last poem, Pale Fire, is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterwork is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

• Reihe: Penguin Modern Classics
• Themen: Belletristik Allgemein, nicht nach Genre Allgemein und literarisch
• ISBN: 9780141185262
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.08.2000
• Größe: 198 x 130 mm
• Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd